Electronic Editing in Technical Communication

The complete text of the following dissertation is available here:

David Dayton. 2001. "Electronic editing in technical communication: Practices, attitudes, and impacts." Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Tech University. Available online at http://htc.spsu.edu/dayton/dissertation.

The author grants permission to use any information in the dissertation for non-commercial purposes, provided that proper credit is given through citation. In listing the work in a bibliography, please include the URL to this site.

The dissertation is divided into the parts listed below. The links will let you open or download Microsoft Word files containing the corresponding part of the dissertation. If you have problems, email me.

Note that two landscape-oriented figures for Chapter IV are in a separate file, which is hyperlinked in the chapter. For the hyperlinks in Chapter IV to work, the file with the figures must be in the same directory as the file containing Chapter IV.

All Word docs listed here in one zip file
Frontmatter: Title Page, Abstract, Table of Contents 
Chapter I: Introduction and Overview
Chapter II: A Starting Point in Critical Reflection
Chapter III: Preliminary Research
Chapter IV: Electronic Editing in Specific Workplace Contexts         Chapter IV figures
Chapter V: Theoretical Perspectives on the Erratic Diffusion of Electronic Editing in Technical Communication.
Chapter VI: Development and Implementation of the Final Survey Instrument
Chapter VII: Sample Survey Results and Discussion
Chapter VIII: What We Know, and Do Not Know, Now
Bibliography
Appendix: Facsimile of Paper Survey with % Distributions